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title: Release Notes – April 18th 2024
category: release-notes
description: New sticky notes and huge improvements to performance.
hero: /images/blog/49ab4789-8d5e-4b9f-ac9f-9dc870d315ed_960x540.gif
date: 4/18/2024
status: published
author: luwilson
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Hey! Welcome back to another tldraw release. We’ve got so much to show you: new stickies, faster performance and many improvements and fixes. You can try them now on [tldraw.com](http://tldraw.com/), or read on for the full changes.

## What's new

This release includes our new and improved **sticky notes**. The notes have a new look, new shadows, and some new interactions, too.

![Improved sticky notes](/images/blog/76e09493-71eb-43d9-a38d-97d8b460b848_960x540.gif)

![Improved sticky notes](/images/blog/cb56d96e-04aa-46a3-aa08-365a36845cd3_1838x686.png)

Along with **new colors**, our notes now include **randomized shadows and lighting effects**, giving your stickies a wobbliness that we think fits better with the rest of the tldraw shapes.

![Rotating shadows](/images/blog/3c17d55b-2be3-476d-84d3-5f26696c7809_960x540.gif)

On the interaction side, a note will now automatically snap while dragging into **grid positions** next to other notes.

![Grid snapping](/images/blog/c230f201-88d1-47df-9626-3c743a4e6c7a_722x406.gif)

You can create notes in adjacent positions by clicking or dragging the bumpy **handles** on the edge of a note.

![Creating notes using handles](/images/blog/0deb9327-ee70-4ada-977a-f49d0eb01419_722x406.gif)

…or by using new **keyboard shortcuts while editing**. To create a new note to the side, press the Tab key. To create a new note below, press Command/Control + Enter. Combine with the Shift key to create a note in the opposite direction.

![Keyboard shortcuts](/images/blog/9e3297cf-4643-4d4e-a477-1223c64f0426_722x406.gif)

We also now **dynamically adjust the font size** in notes to avoid broken words.

![Dynamic font size](/images/blog/fdd16a76-2f3e-49ea-9b76-470786d4d304_720x406.gif)

## Improvements

This release also includes dozens of **performance improvements**. The canvas should now feel faster while panning, zooming, and working with large documents. Performance on iOS devices should be significantly faster, especially when working with text.

![Video](blob:https://tldraw.substack.com/80230c44-df2b-4813-bc2c-d67c7d0c5e31)

Best of all, we’ve sped up our canvas enough that we were able to remove the delayed rendering of off-screen shapes, meaning **no more grey boxes** when panning to a new part of the screen.

We’ve also improved the experience of **editing text labels**. While editing a text label, you can now click directly into another text label to start editing that one immediately. And while editing a text label, you can click ‘through’ certain thin shapes, like freehand lines and arrows. And we now bring off-screen editing text labels into view.

![Editing text labels](/images/blog/4d91f68a-829a-4b18-bcef-f37d2ec24bda_960x540.gif)

We’ve updated translations for Romanian. Thanks to **Vlad Ilie** for the help!

## Fixes

- Fixed a bug where the board name could overflow into the people menu.
- Fixed toolbar items not showing their titles when hovered.
- Fixed a bug with cursor chat button appearing when it shouldn’t.
- Fixed a bug that could occur while pinching with the hand tool selected.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent users from editing the board name while editing a shape.
- Fixed the context menu showing an option to edit link on locked shapes.

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We also **secretly added the color white**. Press Alt/Option + T to select it.

![White color](/images/blog/843628e9-5ac3-43f6-8955-01af129cd380_960x540.gif)

Don't tell anyone.

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As always, try out the changes on [tldraw.com](https://tldraw.com) and let us know what you think. Find us on [twitter](https://twitter.com/tldraw), [mastodon](https://mas.to/@tldraw), [discord](https://t.co/FbWiDYFD3O), and now [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tldraw/)!
